From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: M2 history - relations to Ada
Date: 1999/02/04
Date: 1999-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79c8l4$gaf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 79bp1n$fd5$1@remarQ.com
In article <79bp1n$fd5$1@remarQ.com>,
"news.oxy.com" <Vladimir_Olensky@oxy.com> wrote:
> news.oxy.com wrote in message
<7992oe$ram$1@remarQ.com>...
> The outcome of that was language Modula-2.
> First Modula-2 implementation was on PDP-11 in 1979.
> In March 1980 first public specification was published.
So that settles it, Ada definitely precedes M2, since the
first public specification (preliminary Ada) is 1979. Note
that this is the right level to compare with the public
"specification" of M2. If you want to compare final
ISO standard dates, then of course Ada also precedes M2.
Going over some notes, and discussions, it is clear to me
that my recollection is accurate, there was no very
specific input from M2 to Ada, the timing as shown from the
above was just wrong.
However, of course, M2 and Ada are related in the sense of
being Algol-like languages developed at the same time in
the same mix of ideas. Probably the threads of input are
a bit different. For example, it is clearly the case that
Algol-68 had a significantly greater influence on Ada than
on M2 (considering the history this is not surprising :-)
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 0:00 Time to join the fold? Mike Silva
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-02-02 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Modula 2 William Clodius
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-04 0:00 ` M2 history - relations to Ada news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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